Freeman Dyson by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli's admiration for Dyson goes beyond his "unify all the things approach", which Ciro loves, but also extends to the way he talks and the things he says. Dyson is one of Ciro's favorite physicist.
Besides this, he was also very idealistic compassionate, and supported a peaceful resolution until World War II with United Kingdom was basically inevitable. Note that this was a strategic mistake.
Dyson is "hawk nosed" as mentioned in Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick (1994) chapter "Dyson". But he wasn't when he was young, see e.g. i2.wp.com/www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/freemandyson_child-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1064&ssl=1 It sems that his nose just never stopped growing after puberty.
He also has some fun stories, like him practicing night climbing while at Cambridge University, and having walked from Cambridge to London (~86km!) in a day with his wheelchair bound friend.
Ciro Santilli feels that the label child prodigy applies even more so to him than to Feynman and Julian Schwinger.
Bibliography:
Hermann Weyl by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Jean Baptiste Perrin by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This seems like a cool dude. Besides a hardcore scientist, he also made many important contributions to the French education and research system.
John von Neumann by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This is the one Ciro Santilli envies the most, because he has such a great overlap with Ciro's interests, e.g.:
Video 1.
John von Neuman - a documentary by the Mathematical Association of America (1966)
Source. Some good testimonies. Some boring.
Lord Kelvin by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Murray Gell-Mann by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The way this dude speaks. He exhales incredible intelligence!!!
In the interviews you can see that he pronounces names in all languages amazingly, making acute effort to do so, to the point of being notable. His passion for linguistics is actually mentioned on Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick (1994).
Maybe this obsession is partly due to his name which no English speaking person knows how to pronounce from the writing.
This passion also led in part for his names to some physics terminology he worked on winning out over alternatives by his collaborators, most notably in the case of the naming of the quark.
Pieter Zeeman by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Werner Heisenberg by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Reductionism by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Square wave by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Standard Model by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
As of 2019, the more formal name for particle physics, which is notably missing general relativity to achieve the theory of everything.
cds.cern.ch/record/799984/files/0401010.pdf The Making of the Standard Model by Steven Weinberg mentions three crucial elements that made up the standard model post earlier less generalized quantum electrodynamics understandings
If you have a PDE that models physical phenomena, it is fundamental that:
  • there must exist a solution for every physically valid initial condition, otherwise it means that the equation does not describe certain cases of reality
  • the solution must be unique, otherwise how are we to choose between the multiple solutions?
Unlike for ordinary differential equations which have the Picard–Lindelöf theorem, the existence and uniqueness of solution is not well solved for PDEs.
OurBigBook.com by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The website is the reference instance of OurBigBook Web, which is part of the OurBigBook Project, the other main part of the project are software that users can run locally to publish their content such as the OurBigBook CLI.
The source code for ourbigbook.com is present at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook/tree/master/web
The project documentation is present at: docs.ourbigbook.com#ourbigbook-web-user-manual
This page contains further information about the project's rationale, motivation and planning.
Figure 1.
The topics feature allows you to find the best version of a subject written by other users user
. Live demo: derivative.
Public relations by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The reason public relations is evil in modern society is because, like discrimination, public relations works by dumb association and not logic or fairness.
If you're the son of the killer, you're fucked.
This is unlike our ideal for law which attempts, though sometimes fails, at isolating cause and effect.
Degree (algebra) by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The degree of some algebraic structure is some parameter that describes the structure. There is no universal definition valid for all structures, it is a per structure type thing.
This is particularly useful when talking about structures with an infinite number of elements, but it is sometimes also used for finite structures.
Examples:
  • the dihedral group of degree n acts on n elements, and has order 2n
  • the parameter that characterizes the size of the general linear group is called the degree of that group, i.e. the dimension of the underlying matrices
Addition by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Encyclopedia by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Quintic equation by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created

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